Socrates

            Today for Human Geo we learned about an interesting man named Socrates.  He would make people fight for what they truly believed in.  If you had a problem you would break it down into a serious of questions and then get the answer you need for you problem.  Socrates fought for he thought was true and had to pay the price.  Just because he didn’t worship the gods and pray to the heaven they sentenced him to death.  All Socrates had to do was say he was sorry and continue on without his beliefs but he said DEATH.  He chose to die by drinking hemlock.  It shuts down your lungs and therefore chokes you to death.  Yes it’s a horrible way to die but he fought for what he believed in and lost.  When they were deciding his death there were 220 people out of 500 that said that Socrates should give up and say that he wants to live and secretly share his wisdom.

      Arête was the goddess of excellence, goodness and valor

      Polis was a word used to indicate Ancient Greek city-states

      Socrates was a gifted thinker of ancient Athens who helped lay the foundation of western philosophy

      Socrates died for disgracing the god and believing what he thought was true

      The Socratic method is an approach to teaching and developing critical thinking skills

      In 508bc Democracy is introduced in Athens by Cleisthenes.  He establishes a constitution and is often called the “Father of Athenian Democracy”.  This is one of the great accomplishments of Greek culture.

      Agora was a central spot in ancient Greek city-states and was the literal meaning “meeting place”

      When the ancient Greeks called you and idiot was probably because you didn’t vote